Varina : a novel /
Charles Frazier.
- First edition.
- 356 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 356).
"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--
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